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- From: neilo@m140.aone.net.au (Neil O'Rourke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dump the crappy hardware!!! (was: Haynie joins AT team)
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 08:31:35 +1000
- Message-ID: <neilo-2603960831350001@d19-1.cpe.maroochydore.aone.net.au>
- References: <4iutet$cb2@astfgl.idb.hist.no> <1377.6657T1039T917@es.co.nz> <4j3ltf$l99@serpens.rhein.de> <4j4jrl$td1@carbon.cudenver.edu> <4j6dh4$131@serpens.rhein.de>
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- In article <4j6dh4$131@serpens.rhein.de>, mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
- (Michael van Elst) wrote:
-
- > gsmarlow@ouray.cudenver.edu (Scott Marlowe) writes:
- >
- > >Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- > >: Because you cannot make money with selling an operating system.
- >
- > >Yo! Mike! Remember a guy by the name of Bill Gates?
- >
- > He doesn't make money by selling an operating system and he
- > given half of the market for free.
-
- Sorry, Windows 3.1 and DOS use to make Microsoft over 3 million US dollars
- a month. I don't know whatthe figure is now, but I'd guess that W95 is
- doing at least that.
-
- W3.1/DOS and W95 aren't given away with systems. The manufacturer of a PC
- must pay Microsoft for each copy.
-
- Neil O'Rourke
- neilo@m140.aone.net.au
-
- "Naturally, we maintain plausable denial" - Cancer Man, The X Files
-